On the return ship, Bai Ko rested in the cabin alone, the men gathered together to chat, after all kinds of bragging, Gu Yun and the palace chief seized the opportunity to throw out the topic of wool, it seemed that it was just casual talk, the prince was keenly aware of the true intentions of the two of them, and brought the topic over with a smile, but hinted that they would return to the capital to talk about it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After returning to the capital, the news of these two big orders naturally spread, and they couldn't hide it at all, Bai Ko spread the lint purchase news in the circle of the textile industry, collected the lint accumulated in the hands of peers, and contacted the lint merchants to book this year's new cotton.

The situation in the textile circle in Beijing is turbulent, Bai Ko, a new entrant, she does have the strength to occupy a place, and the old people who are squeezed aside are still trying to huddle together to keep warm, knowing that she is now short of lint raw materials, and if she can't complete the order, she will lose a lot of money, so she wants to jam her neck on the raw materials, and the old lint merchants in the capital do not supply Bai Ko, and those who have inventory in their hands also said hello and don't shoot.

Bai Ko has long guarded against this hand, she doesn't expect her peers in the capital to supply her at all, the foreign businessmen who are begging for a living in the capital are her goals, and these businessmen will not let her down, cats have cat roads, rats have mouse roads, they can transport lint from other places, one person gets a little, the accumulation is enough to fill the raw material warehouse, and the prince's two orders can also start production.

In this way, the bottom weavers were the first to collapse, and the merchants who bought yarn and grey cloth did not tell them the news of the increase in lint prices, or received the goods at the original price before, and then the weavers took the money to buy lint, only to find that the lint price had risen, which made many weavers unable to produce anymore, if they used the money to buy lint, before the yarn and grey cloth could be sold for money, the family would starve to death, not to mention that their own family workshops had to pay taxes.

As more and more weavers fell into the dilemma of whether to eat or produce, the yarn and grey cloth that could be purchased in the market became less and less, and many dyeing workshops gradually stopped working.

Such a situation also includes the textile production of the farm shareholders' own families, and there is also a dyeing workshop in the Yeguo Mansion, and the eldest son of the five brothers of the Sun family, Sun Qing, married Gu Yun's old girl, Meilun, and now the dyeing workshop is also semi-suspended if it can't enter the grey fabric.

But they are not in a hurry, such a situation has long been expected, now is a good opportunity to hold these weavers who have broken their livelihood in the palm of their hands, let them change from their own production and operation to only do processing with incoming materials, earn processing fees to eat, how the price of raw materials and finished products rises has nothing to do with them, they only work according to the fixed price of a pound of yarn and a piece of cloth to earn money, and sign an employment contract for more than ten years, with the identity of a worker, no longer a small producer, and do not have to pay commercial taxes.

This is still Bai Ko's best job at the bottom of the kettle, and she was surprised to find that those veteran peers have only forced the purchase price to make money for so many years, rather than treating the weaver as her own worker, since this is the case, she unceremoniously laughed.

The current main products of the textile factory are only yarn-dyed fabrics, the price is high, the middle and upper class residents can afford it, cheap dyed cloth is still the main force in the cloth market, and these weavers are snatched into their own hands, and the new pattern of the dyed cloth market in the capital is redivided. But there is no sericulture industry in the capital, and high-end fabrics need high-level weavers, so where do such high-level talents come from, Bai Ko doesn't care, she just wants to complete the small goal of monopolizing the cotton cloth market in Beijing and Zhili first.

The weavers were affected by the rise in lint prices and stopped production one after another, and the high-ranking old men found that they could not receive new goods at first and did not care, and took out the trick of credit raw materials, self-righteously thinking that the weavers would be grateful to Dade for resuming production, and then found that a large number of weavers were successively signing contracts to become hired workers, and their employers were the princes behind the shareholders of Bai Ko, which was finally in a hurry, but it was too late, and the weavers who had not yet signed the contract were so few that they could not support the needs of the imperial court's large orders.

If you want to do a large order of the imperial court, you must have a sufficient source of cloth, without the weaver there will be no cloth, and even the list that is being done in your hands can not be completed, the household department at this time to make a move, specializing in textiles for decades of the imperial merchants got a one-year inspection period, if you can't get out of the trough, you have to get rid of their imperial merchant qualifications, then the cotton cloth market in the capital will be completely monopolized by the Bai Ko gang.

The prince went to the factory to see, he knew that it was only a matter of time before he reached a de facto monopoly, and there were several confidential new textile machines in the textile factory that were being trial-produced.

The government and the opposition watched this big drama that lasted for a month in amazement, and the heads of those old imperial merchants seemed to have aged more than ten or twenty years overnight, and Gu Yun and the other young people were full of spirit.

The grievances and justice of the Song carpenter's family have also been served, and the Hong'an County Order of Xingning Prefecture was dismissed and investigated, as a parental official and the squire colluded in the squire to disregard people's lives, after the news spread, the people said that this is God has eyes, God sent this great talent to Bai Ko through Tang Lin's hand, and Bai Ko did not live up to God's expectations, she gave full play to the role of talents.

The president of the Beijing Textile Guild announced his resignation, and then the guild invited Gu Yun, a young imperial merchant, to join the guild and prepare to elect a new president, but only refused Bai Ko to join, even if she was the first shareholder of United Farm, on the grounds that she was a woman, and all the guilds were men, and it was against women's morals for her to show up as a woman in the men's pile.

Gu Yun immediately mercilessly ridiculed a group of gentlemen in the guild for losing to a sixteen-year-old girl in this business war, and now he still has the face to dislike people as women, so he disdains to join such a guild.

When the people of the capital heard this gossip, they also laughed at the shamelessness of the textile guild, and no one in the officialdom said anything, and they all watched the play with their hands.

The Textile Guild was forced to bow her head and compromise and invited Bai Ko to join the club, but Bai Ko inquired about the benefits of joining the guild and learned that there was not much preferential price for buying lint, so she was not interested and let Gu Yun stay inside as a spy.

Bai Ko is not interested in Gu Yun if he doesn't join the club, he is so busy every day in the Hanlin Courtyard that he has no time to participate in the guild's entertainment, his identity as an imperial merchant was given to him by the sage for the sake of Bai Ko's ability to make money, if the imperial court allows Bai Ko to be an empress businessman, he is very willing to take off the imperial merchant hat on his head.

Seeing that the two people had such an attitude, the textile guild was quite depressed, and the guild, which had always been high and respected, was actually disliked by others.

"These two guys sing and harmonize, so consistent, why don't they get married!"

(Author's note: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone!) Eat more grapefruit and less mooncakes! Bugs have a whole box of egg yolk mooncakes waiting to be eliminated~~~)